Muscat,(ONA) - Dr. Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Ismail Al-Fizari published a book entitled “Mechanisms for the Protection of Human Rights at the Regional Level”, which deals with regional mechanisms for the protection of human rights through the presentation of four regional systems, and comparing between them.

This book, which was published in cooperation with the “Omani Commission for Human Rights”, represents a valuable addition in terms of content, and a tributary to libraries in the field of human rights in the Sultanate. The book contributes to bringing information closer, facilitating access to it, and deepening the level of understanding and familiarity with it, to be a catalyst to make more effort in various research and study topics related to human rights.

The study included in the book, which was presented as a doctoral thesis of the author, aimed to introduce the regional mechanisms concerned with the protection of human rights, whether in their substantive or institutional side, or in their procedural and practical side, as this is an important and essential topic for all persons and institutions concerned with research in means of protecting and promoting human rights.

The study focused on a comparison between regional mechanisms for the protection of human rights through the presentation of four regional systems, which are the European, American, African and Arab framework.

Through his study, the author explained the emergence of the idea of human rights in the international system, and the non-judicial regional mechanisms for the protection of human rights represented in committees, reports, complaints, and investigations in each regional system separately. Then he touched on the regional judicial mechanisms by shedding light on the establishment, organization and jurisdiction of courts concerned with protecting human rights in each regional system, the procedures, and the nature of their rulings.

(ONA)